Apologies for the formatting errors in the previous email. Hopefully this message is cleaner.
GRUB loads. I add acpi=off to the boot options and boot. Otherwise, the screen goes black with a '-' symbol at the top left corner and freezes. So, after booting with acpi=off, the display shows the following lines (with timestamps on the left, but I had to manually transcribe so I left them off): %<---------------begin pasted text----------------------- ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.7 setup! ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.7: init 0000:00:1d.7 fail, -19 ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.0 setup! ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: init 0000:00:1d.0 fail, -19 ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.1: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.1 setup! ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.1: init 0000:00:1d.1 fail, -19 ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.2: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.2 setup! ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.2: init 0000:00:1d.2 fail, -19 ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.3: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:1d.3 setup! ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.3: init 0000:00:1d.7 fail, -19 GC Warning: pthread_getattr_np or pthread_attr_getstack failed for main thread GC Warning: couldn't read /proc/stat Welcome, this is GNU's early boot Guile. Use '--repl' for an initrd REPL. loading kernel modules... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... waiting for partition '31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833' to appear... ERROR: In procedure scm-error: failed to resolve partition "31393730-3031-3031-3139-343934363833" %<-------------end paste--------------------------------- And then it enters the Guile 2.2.4 prompt, but the keyboard and USB ports are disabled at this stage, so I can't use it.